And this is how we learn that Bill, not the Brigadier, became Handles.

It kind of is a character arc for twelve that he thaws out and mellows out over the course of his run - his clash with Clara in "Kill the Moon" is the point where he realises he needs to treat his companions with more respect, and his "I am an idiot!" realisation is when he begins to drop the aloofness (to a degree)…

Oops, sorry, this comment was adapted from one I made on a different review - you've noticed the result of my lazy habit of copy and pasting, then slightly tweaking, long comments for different comment sections :P

Yes, convicted, my mistake. I am not a lawyer, and would not be good at it.

That is a large point of the episode - he can't stop himself - he hides in plain sight because it makes his murders more satisfying, and ultimately sets up his compulsive confessions to Lestrade that actually get him acquitted, and not the confession to Sherlock that wouldn't hold up in a court of Law.

I personally, loved series three - I thought they handled Sherlock's return with good humour and a welcome sense of fun, and generally handled the ridiculous weight of expectations as well as possible in "The Empty Hearse", with the decision to make John's reaction the focus being the smartest approach they could…

I absolutely loved it.

Though I'm admittedly not that bothered by the fact that the answer to the question "what happened the Doctor and clara inside the timestream is just "they escaped".

Like I said, it wasn't meant to be unresolved - the script included the escape, they just weren't able to film it. Doesn't mean that you can't be frustrated with the end product, just that they didn't deliberately ignore a cliffhanger. And starting Day mid cliffhanger would have been detrimental to that story, so on…

From what I understand, they intended to show the Doctor and Clara escaping from the timestream in "Name", but were unable to film it due to Matt Smith's back injury from that run. And I think "Day" kept the right balance between addressing the cliffhanger while starting out without alienating the bigger audience that…

I liked the ambiguity of that a lot.

Agreed, I think there's very little to choose between Doctor Who seasons on a base quality level - most New Doctor Who seasons seem to have one or two fan favourite episodes in the vein of "Heaven Sent", "Vincent and the Doctor", Midnight", or "The Empty Child/ The Doctor Dances", one or two that go down very poorly,…

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